Can we have instanced housing please?

[technole]

"I play Rift and it should be like that" Never mind the person conveniently left out some special things why real housing is better.

Well this isn't Rift and housing is meant to be a general area, and once again thankfully YoshiP agrees with me. I don't have to defend anything.

[Conundrum]

"I play Rift and it should be like that" Never mind the person conveniently left out some special things why real housing is better.

Well this isn't Rift and housing is meant to be a general area, and once again thankfully YoshiP agrees with me. I don't have to defend anything.

to paraphrase...

"eff you, I got mine"


Great Community By The Way.

[MidnightEquinox]

What's confusing to me is it's not like anything I've seen in public housing areas in this game so far is terribly impressive. It seems they had to sacrifice so much to allow for the non-instanced housing wards that you just end up with a tiny plot. Oh yay, a non-instanced bench and a tree. So I'm not sure where the trade off went. The inside of the houses is still instanced, even...

I brought up NW because it's not a game you want to end up falling short towards, especially given its infamously buggy backend. :P Even with the tax system, it still at least doesn't do anything with your house if you need to take a break and the taxes don't accumulate, because everyone can get a house. It even can show houses to the public! It accomplishes this by doing a housing score. You can do something similar if you really want your publicly visible different houses in a neighborhood.

Rift's housing has been lauded from the beginning, on the other hand, but yeah.

[Tlamila]

I don't know, I must be the only one who's not a fan of Rift's system. It's not an housing system per se, it's a dimensions system. It's not a "grab an house and decorate it" it's more of a: here's an instance, start building from scratch.
As beautiful as it is, and I've seen the crazy stuff people can do with it, build entire towns too, it's something different altogether. And personally I had multiple dimensions in Rift and I never did anything with any of them. Sure, there are some dimensions that alraedy have stuff in them, but it's either a small bilding, and not necesssarily an house, an the rest wild, or a bunch of buidilngs, or something like a hall or a castle. None of that feels "home". It's imho more of the Minecraft feel.
EQ2 (and I think EQ?) did the same and even before, and there too I never felt the urge of decorating.

I think TESO system or Wildstar system, heck even Elyon's, might come closer to the instanced house feel. If they'd ever do that (but remember, spaghetti code...) though, I'd hope they'd give people the choice between instanced and not. Cause for me the village feel of non-instanced houses ia huge part in housing in this game, and I'd never want to lose that, and I'm sure it's the same for many.

[VerdeLuck]

Instanced housing would be amazing. It's a shame that large parts of the game are gated behind things like botting or farming enough gil to buy a house at high prices. Even with the current system, they can add more wards and areas like Ishgard but they're just going to get bought up almost immediately and leave everyone at exactly the same place they were before.

It would be nice if they could do something about people owning multiple houses on one account through multiple characters or an FC house if they're going to keep the current system though.

[Tlamila]

It would be nice if they could do something about people owning multiple houses on one account through multiple characters or an FC house if they're going to keep the current system though.

You literally can only have 1 house per account, no matter the number of characters, unless you mean apartments.
The people who have multiple houses either did it when it was still allowed, or did it on multiple accounts...or yeah, the fcs thing I guess.

[Raoabolic]

I just want the level of customization that EQ2 gives you with housing, just flip around the video to get an idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmYrUAWdudY

tl;dw: Apartments with a basement and 2nd floor. FC housing that lets you make portals to outdoor areas like courtyards. Relic gear/weapons can be displayed as housing items if you are not using them. Most flooring and partitions can be scaled to make hallways in your house. I hate EQ2 for many, MANY reasons (No Daybreak, i'm not giving you money to let me equip my gear) but the housing system on that game is so strong I occasionally get an itch to make a f2p account on that game.

[Conundrum]

You literally can only have 1 house per account, no matter the number of characters, unless you mean apartments.
The people who have multiple houses either did it when it was still allowed, or did it on multiple accounts...or yeah, the fcs thing I guess.

Incorrect, back in the stone age there was no limit, and anyone with more than one house when the limit was added got to be grandfathered in and keep them. I would like to see them lose all but one on principle...but in the end it wouldn't even be a drop in the ocean to fixing the problem.

[Tlamila]

Incorrect, back in the stone age there was no limit, and anyone with more than one house when the limit was added got to be grandfathered in and keep them. I would like to see them lose all but one on principle...but in the end it wouldn't even be a drop in the ocean to fixing the problem.

Which is why I said "when it was allowed". I said nothing incorrect. Either they're of people who got them when it was allowed, or the other options I said.
And they've said multiple times they're not touchign the grandfathered houses so...

[LisSquid]

I have to assume at least a majority of the grandfathered plots fell over. What is eating a lot of space at the moment are puppet FC homes, now time will tell if the changes to housing will do anything about this.